The World According to Garp by John Irving

The story deals with the life of T. S. Garp. His mother, Jenny Fields, is a strong-willed nurse who wants a child but not a husband. She encounters a dying ball turret gunner known only as Technical Sergeant Garp who was reduced to a perpetually priapic mental vegetable by pieces of shrapnel that pierced his head. Jenny rapes Garp in his bedridden, uncomprehending, dying state to impregnate herself, and names the resultant son after him "T. S." (standing only for "Technical Sergeant"). Jenny raises young Garp alone, taking a position at an all-boys school.

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The 200th greatest fiction book of all time

This book is on the following lists:

1. - 18th on The 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians (Bookman.com)
2. - 34th on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
3. - 37th on Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (Radcliffe Publishing Course)
4. - 38th on Koen Book Distributors Top 100 Books of the Past Century (themodernnovel.com)
5. - Världsbiblioteket (The World Library) (Tidningen Boken)
6. - National Book Award - Fiction (National Book Foundation)
7. - 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (USA))
8. - The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1893 – 1993 (Jeff O'Neal at Bookriot.com)

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	Name	Binding	Sales Rank	Lowest New	Lowest Used	Published
	The World According to Garp	Audio CD	1684872	$264.89	$21.01	2005
	The World According to Garp	Mass Market Paperback	1898310		$1.24	2
	The World According to Garp (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Irving, John unknown Edition [Paperback(1997)]	Paperback	761806	$6.42	$2.50
	The World According to Garp: A Novel	Kindle Edition	47412	$14.99		2018
	The World According to Garp By John Irving	Hardcover	1180670	$95.00	$17.95	1978
	The World According to Garp: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)	Paperback	572854	$11.20	$1.58	1997
	The World According to Garp	Paperback	1790683	$6.31	$0.01
	The World According to Garp	Mass Market Paperback	2809129	$12.00	$0.01
	World According to Garp	Paperback	1543412	$6.33	$0.01
	El Mundo Segun Garp / The World According to Garp (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	11470468	$24.94	$13.99
	El Mundo Segun Garp / The World According to Garp (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	11503074		$14.95
	The World According to Garp: A Novel	Hardcover	155424	$18.60	$5.00	2018
	The World According to Garp (Chinese Edition)	Unknown Binding	15146734		$59.99	2008
	The World According to Garp 20th (twentieth) edition Text Only	Mass Market Paperback	6547392	$17.93	$4.27
	Garp und wie er die Welt sah (German Edition)	Kindle Edition	3083239	$10.99		2012
	The World According to Garp (Modern Library)	Hardcover	177555	$11.42	$0.96	1998
	El Mundo Segun Garp / The World According to Garp (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	6433348	$384.82	$7.38	2002
	Garp Und Wie Er Die Welt Sah (German Edition)	Paperback	5858482	$6.99	$1.93	1998
	[(The World According to Garp)] [Author: John Irving] published on (August, 1994)	Paperback	388319	$29.93	$4.99	1994
	The World According to Garp	Mass Market Paperback	67538	$13.00	$0.35	1990